In some areas of the country, a consumer can install a windmill that generates electricity and sell that electricity to the utility (which then sells it to other consumers). If there were hundreds of individuals in an area, each with a windmill generating electricity, how would the utility handle the fact that each windmill generates AC electricity that is not in phase with the electricity generated by the other windmills?
I understand that there are methods for "shifting" the phase of AC electricity. But would each windmill have its own phase shifter, in order to provide "in-phase" electricity to the system? Or could each windmill sense the phase of the system and generate its electricity in phase?
Please help me understand how this works.
Thanks.
2007-03-31
08:57:49
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